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The secret of a good interview? Sit back and listenhttps://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/26/decca-aitkenhead-similarities-interviews-conversations
<p>When someone’s favourite subject is themselves, and they find everything else a yawn, no question can be too intrusive or impertinent</p><p>It was never my plan to become a professional interviewer. For the life of me, I can’t think why not. I fell into the job by accident nearly 10 years ago, and to this day it still feels like implausibly good luck to get paid to make conversation.</p><p>An interview is not the same thing as a conversation, but it’s my job to make the subject feel as if it is. No one talks freely under interrogation, or if conscious of every word being recorded, so the art of interviewing lies in creating the atmosphere of a kitchen table chat. An occupational hazard is that friends in my kitchen sometimes accuse me of interviewing them, but mostly I’m just studying what makes us want to open up.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/26/decca-aitkenhead-similarities-interviews-conversations">Continue reading...</a>Life and styleChris BrownMediaGordon RamsayUsain BoltAngus DeaytonJonathan RossKatie HopkinsGeorge GallowaySlavoj ZizekPeter HiggsSat, 26 Nov 2016 09:00:27 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/nov/26/decca-aitkenhead-similarities-interviews-conversationsPhotograph: Martin Meissner/APPhotograph: Martin Meissner/APDecca Aitkenhead2016-11-26T09:00:27ZGordon Ramsay had a parents’ evening nightmare. Here’s how to avoid yours | Tom Bennetthttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/03/gordon-ramsay-parents-evenings-nightmare-children-teachers-selfie-headteacher
Here are my top tips for anyone meeting their children’s teachers. Taking selfies with the head has, sadly, not made the cut<p>Here’s a crumb of comfort for Gordon Ramsay, who has revealed that he was once asked to <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/gordon-ramsay-banned-from-daughter-s-parents-evening-after-asking-headmaster-for-selfie-a3357696.html" title="">stay away from parents’ evenings at his daughter’s school</a> after asking the headteacher for a selfie.</p><p>At least the celebrity chef can feel sure that his conduct would never feature in the parental cliches a teacher I knew thought would be the basis for a decent game of bingo. The teacher shared this idea with his department, and one day he turned his words to actions: after an hour we had our first cry of “House!”, while parents looked on perplexed.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/oct/20/five-simple-ways-to-ace-your-childs-parents-evening">How to ace your child's parents' evening</a> </p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2015/oct/03/secret-teacher-judge-parents-evening">Secret Teacher: I can't help but judge on parents' evening</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/03/gordon-ramsay-parents-evenings-nightmare-children-teachers-selfie-headteacher">Continue reading...</a>TeachingGordon RamsayEducationParents and parentingLife and styleSchoolsChefsMon, 03 Oct 2016 14:41:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/03/gordon-ramsay-parents-evenings-nightmare-children-teachers-selfie-headteacherPhotograph: FOX/FOX via Getty ImagesPhotograph: FOX/FOX via Getty ImagesTom Bennett2016-10-03T14:41:37ZThe game that lets you live your own kitchen nightmare with Gordon Ramsayhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/aug/02/the-game-that-lets-you-live-your-own-kitchen-nightmare-with-gordon-ramsay
<p>If being shouted at by the pottymouthed celebrity chef is the only thing missing in your life, a new mobile game is here to make your dreams a reality</p><p>Ever think that Gordon Ramsay’s TV persona is a bit cartoonish? You’ve seen nothing yet. Now, the potty mouth of the cordon bleu world has decided to become the main character in a <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/gordon-ramsay-dash/id1089048531?mt=8">cartoony smartphone game</a> (created by a team whose previous illustrious achievements include Kim Kardashian’s official iPhone game). The idea: you’re based in a kitchen, and have to prep food while Ramsay loiters near the bins, offering advice. And occasional abuse.<br></p><p>What can we take from it, though? What lessons are to be learned from this rare insight into working up close and personal with the celebrity chef? And also, is he pleased that within a few days of release, he was right up there with “Matalan App” for popularity? <br></p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/01/ramsays-hotel-hell-tired-recipe-lack-key-fact">Ramsay’s Hotel Hell review – a tired recipe undermined by the lack of a key fact</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/aug/02/the-game-that-lets-you-live-your-own-kitchen-nightmare-with-gordon-ramsay">Continue reading...</a>Gordon RamsayFood & drinkLife and styleGamesChefsCultureTechnologyTue, 02 Aug 2016 10:32:15 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2016/aug/02/the-game-that-lets-you-live-your-own-kitchen-nightmare-with-gordon-ramsayPhotograph: Glu MobilePhotograph: Glu MobileAlexi Duggins2016-08-02T10:32:15ZRamsay’s Hotel Hell review – a tired recipe undermined by the lack of a key facthttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/01/ramsays-hotel-hell-tired-recipe-lack-key-fact
<p>Gordon Ramsay is in his element calling out a lamentable mismanagement, but missed the underlying tragedy. Plus Freud, the third of Bettany Hughes’s ‘geniuses’</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gordonramsay">Gordon Ramsay</a> is, like escargots à la bourguignonne, a bit of an acquired taste. His bounciness, which he clearly thinks is infectious, is merely exhausting; his liberal use of the F-word tiresome; the rather tired recipe (in the management rather than the culinary sense) he produces for rescuing an ailing hotel business as limp as the salads the establishment is producing before he pitches up.</p><p>The ailing – indeed failing – establishment featured in the first episode of the new series of (Channel 4) is the Angler’s Lodge in Idaho. The setting, beside a river, looks gorgeous. Even the “Be Bear Aware” sign would not put me off. Ramsay is there in winter, and it looks like that lodge in Vermont run by the old general in the Bing Crosby film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047673/">White Christmas</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/01/ramsays-hotel-hell-tired-recipe-lack-key-fact">Continue reading...</a>TelevisionTelevision & radioCultureGordon RamsayFri, 01 Jul 2016 06:20:26 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jul/01/ramsays-hotel-hell-tired-recipe-lack-key-factPhotograph: Channel 4 Picture PublicityPhotograph: Channel 4 Picture PublicityStephen Moss2016-07-01T06:20:26ZGordon Ramsay eyes first UK restaurants outside Londonhttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/30/gordon-ramsay-eyes-first-uk-restaurants-outside-london
<p>Celebrity chef’s firm is considering sites in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham, and is also set to open three new US ventures</p><p>Gordon Ramsay is looking to open his first UK restaurants outside London for over a decade after the celebrity chef’s company increased sales and narrowed losses.</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gordonramsay">Ramsay</a> is considering potential sites in Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham. He is also set to open three new restaurants in the US over the next 12 months, including a chippy in Las Vegas called Gordon Ramsay’s Fish &amp; Chips. The US restaurants will extend Ramsay’s partnership with Caesars Palace, the casino operator with which he already operates four outlets in the US.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/30/gordon-ramsay-eyes-first-uk-restaurants-outside-london">Continue reading...</a>Food & drink industryRestaurantsGordon RamsayBusinessChefsFood & drinkLife and styleUK newsMon, 30 May 2016 16:44:21 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/30/gordon-ramsay-eyes-first-uk-restaurants-outside-londonPhotograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicPhotograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicSarah Butler2016-05-30T16:44:21ZGordon Ramsay cooks up new production companyhttps://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/27/gordon-ramsay-production-company-studio-ramsay-food-tv
<p>Studio Ramsay will produce scripted and unscripted TV shows on food-related themes</p><p>Gordon Ramsay has launched his own production company, Studio Ramsay, to cook up scripted and unscripted TV shows.<br></p><p>Ramsay, whose programmes include Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and The F Word, also announced a joint venture deal with All3Media, jointly owned by Discovery and John Malone’s Liberty Global, to help get projects off the ground.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/apr/16/best-food-shows-childrens-tv-matilda-and-the-ramsay-bunch">Scrumdiddlyumptious! Why all the best food shows are on children's TV</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/27/gordon-ramsay-production-company-studio-ramsay-food-tv">Continue reading...</a>MediaGordon RamsayIndependent production companiesChefsTelevision industryUK newsFood TVTelevisionTelevision & radioCultureWed, 27 Apr 2016 09:43:30 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/apr/27/gordon-ramsay-production-company-studio-ramsay-food-tvPhotograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicPhotograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicJohn Plunkett2016-04-27T09:43:30ZGordon Ramsay paying his son to spy on his daughter is not funny | Rhiannon Lucy Cossletthttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/gordon-ramsay-son-spy-daughter-celebrity-chef-father
The celebrity chef’s behaviour is suggestive of an unhealthy level of vigilance and suspicion. This cliche of the overprotective father has no place in 2016<p>Would you spy on your teenage daughter? Moreover, would you outsource said spying to her younger brother <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3468117/Gordon-Ramsay-admits-paying-son-Jack-100-week-spy-daughter-Megan-17-report-romantic-life.html" title="">for $100 a week</a>? This is exactly what throbbing man-chef Gordon Ramsay has admitted to.</p><p>Perhaps in an attempt to add credence to his well-cultivated media persona of “human jockstrap with rage issues”, Ramsay explained to the <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live/episode-guide/2016-02/24-gordon-ramsay-jurnee-smollettbell-music-from-wolfmother" title="">US chat show host Jimmy Kimmel</a> how he had been paying Jack, 16, to report back to him about 17-year-old Megan’s relationships and social media activity. The cliche of the overprotective father is rearing its ugly, creepy head once more.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/01/should-everyone-have-right-delete-social-media-posts-debate">Should everyone be able to delete social media posts?</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/gordon-ramsay-son-spy-daughter-celebrity-chef-father">Continue reading...</a>Gordon RamsayLife and styleFamilyParents and parentingGenderWorld newsFeminismWomenSexualitySocietyMon, 29 Feb 2016 16:09:53 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/gordon-ramsay-son-spy-daughter-celebrity-chef-fatherPhotograph: Randy Holmes/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Randy Holmes/Getty ImagesRhiannon Lucy Cosslett2016-02-29T16:09:53ZScrumdiddlyumptious! Why all the best food shows are on children's TVhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/apr/16/best-food-shows-childrens-tv-matilda-and-the-ramsay-bunch
<p>Glad MasterChef is nearly over? Sick to the soggy bottom of Bake Off innuendo? From Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch to I Can Cook and Junior Bake Off, children’s TV is where cookery shows get an injection of glucose-crazed energy</p><p>Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, which began this week on CBBC, is a gateway to a glossier, better world: one where food isn’t about competition, but rather stuff that tastes nice. The Ramsay Bunch in question is Gordon Ramsay’s family, but the star of the show is his smiley 13-year-old daughter Matilda. </p><p>She’s not as pottymouthed as her famous dad, but she reckons she’s already a better chef. Sporting freakishly manicured red nails, she’s bubbling over with enthusiasm for her dishes and beneath the basic recipes lie some trademark Ramsay twists.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/apr/16/best-food-shows-childrens-tv-matilda-and-the-ramsay-bunch">Continue reading...</a>Food TVChildren's TVTelevisionTelevision & radioFood & drinkGordon RamsayLife and styleCBBCCBeebiesThe Great British Bake OffCultureChefsMediaThu, 16 Apr 2015 11:27:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/apr/16/best-food-shows-childrens-tv-matilda-and-the-ramsay-bunchPhotograph: Richard Hill/BBC/One Potato Two Potato/Richard HillPhotograph: Richard Hill/BBC/One Potato Two Potato/Richard HillHannah Verdier2015-04-16T11:27:07ZThe machine that’s mightier than Gordon Ramsay’s penhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/jan/21/machine-mightier-than-gordon-ramsay-pen
The celebrity chef claimed in court that a signature was not his, but done by a ‘ghostwriting’ machine. With everyone from the Queen to Barack Obama now using them, how can you be sure who has signed what?<p>A shadowy piece of machinery has emerged at the centre of a court battle between Gordon Ramsay and his father-in-law. The celebrity chef was contesting his liability for the £640,000 rent due on a London pub, claiming he hadn’t signed the legal documents. Yet there was his signature. Ramsay claimed it had been forged, signed by a “ghostwriting machine” – something the judge had described as “obviously very useful” when it was revealed Ramsay’s office had used it to sign cookbooks, cards, merchandise, and at least 42 legal documents.</p><p>Such machines, now known as autopens, were first manufactured widely in the 1940s. Modern versions store copies of signatures on flash drives, but <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH9WB-r_AgA" title="">the mechanism</a> is much the same – a metal arm grips a writing implement (any kind of pen) and robotically draws the signature. A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/washingtons-signature-writing-machines-rumble-into-the-digital-age/2014/04/11/3bb38bc0-afad-11e3-a49e-76adc9210f19_story.html" title="">piece in the Washington Post</a> last year highlighted the secrecy surrounding them. “I’ve seen pens in a government office where the office next door doesn’t know they exist,” said Robert Deshazo III, whose family is in the autopen business.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/jan/21/machine-mightier-than-gordon-ramsay-pen">Continue reading...</a>Gordon RamsayChefsLife and styleTechnologyUK newsWed, 21 Jan 2015 18:15:52 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2015/jan/21/machine-mightier-than-gordon-ramsay-penPhotograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicGordon Ramsay … did he sign your cookbook? Photograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicPhotograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicGordon Ramsay … did he sign your cookbook? Photograph: Jason LaVeris/FilmMagicEmine Saner2015-01-21T18:15:52ZGordon Ramsay loses court battle with father-in-law over pub renthttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/20/gordon-ramsay-court-battle-pub-rent
Judge dismisses chef’s claim that he did not know relative’s use of ghostwriter machine to forge his signature extended to guarantee on £640K annual rent<br /><p>The celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has lost a high court battle over his personal liability for the rent on a London pub after a judge refused to accept crucial evidence he gave in court.</p><p>The pub deal took place when his father-in-law Christopher Hutcheson was at the helm and helping him build his restaurant empire.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/20/gordon-ramsay-court-battle-pub-rent">Continue reading...</a>Gordon RamsayLife and styleLondonUK newsTue, 20 Jan 2015 11:57:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/20/gordon-ramsay-court-battle-pub-rentPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAThe York & Albany pub in Camden, north London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAThe York & Albany pub in Camden, north London. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAPress Association2015-01-20T11:57:00ZMarco Pierre White - in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2015/jan/18/marco-pierre-white-in-pictures
<p>On the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking cookbook <a href="http://bookshop.theguardian.com/white-heat-258751.html">White Heat</a>, Observer Food Monthly looks back on the early career of the groundbreaking chef.</p><p>Photographs courtesy of the estate of Bob Carlos Clarke.<br></p><p><em><a href="http://bookshop.theguardian.com/white-heat-258751.html">White Heat 25 (Mitchell Beazley, RRP £25) is published on 2 February. Click here to buy a copy from the Guardian Bookshop for £20</a>, with free UK P&amp;P</em></p><p><em>Photographs of Marco Pierre White by Bob Carlos Clarke is at </em><a href="http://thelittleblackgallery.com/shows/marco-pierre-white-by-bob-carlos-clarke"><em>The Little Black Gallery, London SW10 0AJ from 10 February-10 March</em></a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2015/jan/18/marco-pierre-white-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Marco Pierre WhiteChefsFood & drinkPhotographyGordon RamsaySun, 18 Jan 2015 00:05:09 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2015/jan/18/marco-pierre-white-in-picturesPhotograph: Bob Carlos Clarke EstatePhotograph: Bob Carlos Clarke EstateGuardian Staff2015-01-18T00:05:09ZFrom Bradley Cooper to Jon Favreau: why stars are lining up to play chefshttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/oct/08/chefs-on-film-movie-stars-line-up-to-play-cooks
Bradley Cooper is in London playing a chef in a movie that follows a spate of documentaries starring some of gastronomy’s most esteemed avatars<p>The tabloids became very excited recently when a “hot chef” arrived in London. Wearing a “leather jacket and aviator shades” as well as “neatly trimmed facial hair” he could have stepped straight <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/22/tv-matters-saturday-kitchen" title="">out of Saturday Kitchen</a> or any other cooking programme gifting the press multipurpose words such as “tasty” and “hunk”. He wasn’t, however, a real chef. He was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/bradley-cooper" title="">Bradley Cooper</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/the-hangover-part-ii" title="">The Hangover</a> star, in town to shoot a film that was <a href="http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=41319" title="">supposed to be called Chef</a> until another film, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/29/chef-review-jon-favreau-tasty-food-movie" title="">Jon Favreau’s Chef</a>, nicked that title last year.</p><p>From all this confusion you can probably guess that chefs are the hot new thing in movies. And actors like Cooper are going to great lengths to try to get the whole chef thing just right. The Daily Mail reports, for example, that the facial hair was “<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2714732/Bradley-Cooper-sports-leather-jacket-aviator-shades-films-scenes-culinary-film-Adam-Jones.html" title="">grown for the role</a>”. And, as well as studying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Wareing" title="">Marcus Wareing</a>, to learn how to chop veg and so on, Bradley also chatted to Gordon Ramsay about some other key chef skills. “As well as giving Cooper a few top tips on cooking,” <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/bradley-cooper-given-swearing-lessons-3911415" title="">Shouty Gordon said</a>, “I’ve taught him the most important thing he needs to know in order to get by in a kitchen – how to swear.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/oct/08/chefs-on-film-movie-stars-line-up-to-play-cooks">Continue reading...</a>Food & drinkLife and styleFilmCultureDramaDocumentaryBradley CooperGordon RamsayMarcus WareingRestaurantsWed, 08 Oct 2014 09:59:07 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2014/oct/08/chefs-on-film-movie-stars-line-up-to-play-cooksPhotograph: Ian Gavan/Getty ImagesGathering kitchen tips … Bradley Cooper, who is in Britain to a movie about a chef.Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty ImagesGathering kitchen tips … Bradley Cooper, who is in Britain to a movie about a chef.Trevor Baker2014-10-08T09:59:07ZClare Smyth: queen of cuisine steps out of the shadows | profilehttps://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/aug/31/profile-clare-smyth-gordon-ramsay-chef-perfect-ten
The first and only woman to run a UK restaurant with three Michelin stars, Gordon Ramsay's protege is not yet a household name. But all that will change now she has won The Good Food Guide's ultimate accolade<p>Though she has run London's most famous restaurant for the past six years, Clare Smyth has spent quite some time living in a substantial shadow. Which might help explain why you might not recognise her name. For that restaurant is Gordon Ramsay's eponymous place in Chelsea's Royal Hospital Road.</p><p>While her fiery mentor left the kitchens of the only significant UK restaurant to bear his name (unless you count Gordon Ramsay's Plane Food, which no one does) long ago, Smyth has stayed at the helm, safeguarding the chef's precious <a href="http://www.gordonramsay.com/royalhospitalroad/" title="">three Michelin stars</a>. Indeed, it is Smyth who Ramsay has to thank for helping him retain his status as an international culinary giant in the eyes of Michelin.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/aug/31/profile-clare-smyth-gordon-ramsay-chef-perfect-ten">Continue reading...</a>ChefsGordon RamsayFood & drinkLife and styleSat, 30 Aug 2014 23:03:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/aug/31/profile-clare-smyth-gordon-ramsay-chef-perfect-tenPhotograph: Murdo Macleod/ObserverClare Smyth – a perfect 10 for her talents as a chef. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the ObserverPhotograph: Murdo Macleod/ObserverClare Smyth – a perfect 10 for her talents as a chef. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the ObserverStefan Chomka2014-08-30T23:03:00ZGordon Ramsay cooks up a new look for himself – the dog's breakfasthttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2014/may/01/gordon-ramsay-new-look-dogs-breakfast
With his eerie haircut and straining shirt, the chef doesn't look comfortable in his own skin – if it <em>is</em> his own skin<br /><br />• <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2014/may/01/celebrity-max-clifford">Will Max Clifford spill celebrities' secrets now they have deserted him?</a><br />• <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2014/may/01/horrified-justin-bieber-adopted-as-pet">How 'horrified' Justin Bieber got adopted as a pet</a><p>Unfolding with all the languid promise of a golden lotus flower, Gordon Ramsay's midlife crisis continues to delight. There was the Botox. There was the first hair transplant. And now, there is … well, there is this LOOK. Have you seen it?</p><p>Attending a birthday dinner for Victoria Beckham at a London club this weekend, Gordon seems to have been alone among the celebrity attendees in not taking the option of leaving by the backdoor. The reason? One can only speculate, but it certainly gave the attendant photographers the chance to get full 360-degree coverage of Chef's eerie new haircut.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2014/may/01/gordon-ramsay-new-look-dogs-breakfast">Continue reading...</a>CelebrityLife and styleGordon RamsayChefsThu, 01 May 2014 18:00:26 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2014/may/01/gordon-ramsay-new-look-dogs-breakfastPhotograph: Niki Nikolova/GC ImagesGordon Ramsay with wife Tana. Photograph: Niki Nikolova/GC ImagesPhotograph: Niki Nikolova/GC ImagesGordon Ramsay with wife Tana. Photograph: Niki Nikolova/GC ImagesMarina Hyde2014-05-01T18:00:26ZThe bad review meets its match – welcome to the age of counter-criticism | Emma Brockeshttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/emma-brockes-blog/2014/apr/18/james-franco-responds-bad-review
<p>From James Franco to Salman Rushdie, the internet is breathing new life into the battle of wits between celebrities and critics</p><p>The art of the bad review is a noble and well-established tradition, starting in 1662 with Samuel Pepys' hatchet job of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (“the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life”) and ending last year with AA Gill's <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article1330696.ece">take-down</a> of Morrissey's memoir (“utterly devoid of insight, warmth, wisdom or likeability.”) Kicking around Jordan somewhere is probably a long lost tablet engraved with a two-star review of Genesis.<br></p><p>Less well-documented is the lively sub-category of retaliatory action: the 360 degree review of the reviewer by the reviewed. As a rule, dignified silence is thought to be the best way to shut down criticism. But those paid large sums to express themselves for a living sometimes can't bite their tongues and we, their audience, are the richer for it.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/emma-brockes-blog/2014/apr/18/james-franco-responds-bad-review">Continue reading...</a>CultureBooksFilmJames FrancoAlec BaldwinMorrisseyAA GillMaurice SendakSalman RushdieGabourey SidibeRihannaGolden GlobesGordon RamsayIan McEwanJonathan FranzenJohn BanvilleVladimir NabokovTwitterInternetSocial mediaFri, 18 Apr 2014 14:13:54 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/emma-brockes-blog/2014/apr/18/james-franco-responds-bad-reviewPhotograph: Startraks Photo/REXMandatory Credit: Photo by Startraks Photo/REX (3705707o)
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22669454 Photograph: Startraks Photo/REXEmma Brockes2014-04-18T14:13:54ZGordon Ramsay 'planning to quit Channel 4 for ITV'https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/29/gordon-ramsay-channel-4-itv
Celebrity chef has decided not to renew exclusive deal after a decade and is in 'advanced talks' about move, says report<p>Gordon Ramsay is eyeing up a return to ITV when his Channel 4 contract runs out later this year.</p><p>The famously foul-mouthed celebrity chef has been on an exclusive deal with Channel 4 for a decade since his last ITV show, Hell's Kitchen, in 2004.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/29/gordon-ramsay-channel-4-itv">Continue reading...</a>ITV channelITV plcChannel 4Television industryMediaGordon RamsayChefsLife and styleUK newsWed, 29 Jan 2014 11:45:21 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/29/gordon-ramsay-channel-4-itvPhotograph: Channel 4Gordon Ramsay is poised to return to ITV from Channel 4, according to a report. Photograph: Channel 4Photograph: Channel 4Gordon Ramsay is poised to return to ITV from Channel 4, according to a report. Photograph: Channel 4John Plunkett2014-01-29T11:45:21ZGordon Ramsay's Festive Home Cooking – TV reviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/21/gordon-ramsays-festive-home-cooking-review
Another effing Christmas food show? Pretty much, as Gordon Ramsay plays nice for the holidays<p>I'm getting a little fed up with TV cooks telling us how much they love Christmas, and how much they love spending quality time with their families, while they explain how to make perfect mince pies. As I've said before, no one likes mince pies. Or their family. Or Christmas.</p><p>So I don't think I've ever looked forward to Gordon Ramsay so much. At least <a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gordon-ramsays-home-cooking" title=""><strong>Gordon Ramsay's Festive Home Cooking</strong></a> (Channel 4) won't be cosy, the F-word will be flying, there'll be the odd temper tantrum …</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/21/gordon-ramsays-festive-home-cooking-review">Continue reading...</a>Gordon RamsayChefsLife and styleTelevision & radioCultureSat, 21 Dec 2013 08:01:13 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/dec/21/gordon-ramsays-festive-home-cooking-reviewSam Wollaston2013-12-21T08:01:13ZLucy Mangan: my greatest fear? Being arrested for child abusehttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/26/spying-on-children-gordon-ramsay
Times change, but if you don't change with them, you can easily find yourself in trouble<p>We're all just puppets, really. That's what I've come to realise over the past couple of years. Marionettes at the mercy of forces beyond our control. Mainly those exercised by patterns of thought and attitudes imprinted on us by our parents (and on them by their parents, and so on) before rational, conscious thought became an option, never mind a serious defence against invasion.</p><p>I realised this week that I am following in the leaden, stumping footsteps of generations of Mangans before me and raising my child in a manner roughly one and a half generations behind the current mode. Times change, but if you don't change with them, you can easily find yourself in trouble. My greatest fear these days is that I am going to be arrested for inadvertent child abuse.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/26/spying-on-children-gordon-ramsay">Continue reading...</a>FamilyRelationshipsParents and parentingGordon RamsayLife and styleSat, 26 Oct 2013 08:00:15 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/26/spying-on-children-gordon-ramsayPhotograph: Roy McMahon/ Roy McMahon/CorbisI spy… Parental common sense, or outrageous invasion of privacy? Photograph: Roy McMahon/CorbisPhotograph: Roy McMahon/ Roy McMahon/CorbisI spy… Parental common sense, or outrageous invasion of privacy? Photograph: Roy McMahon/CorbisLucy Mangan2013-10-26T08:00:15ZLike Gordon Ramsay, I spied on my daughter. And I'll tell you why | Barbara Ellenhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/19/i-spied-on-my-daughter
Gordon's mistake was not telling his daughter. But it shows he cares<p>Did <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/shortcuts/2013/oct/18/spy-on-children-gordon-ramsay" title="">Gordon Ramsay</a> secretly install a spy camera in his 15-year-old daughter's bedroom to check that she was revising with her boyfriend, as he announced on <em>The Jonathan Ross Show</em>? Whether you believe he did, or think it was a joke, this sort of thing sometimes happens with parents and teenagers. I should know because I once put a camera in my daughter's room.</p><p>I did not install a camera secretly. Obviously, you should never put cameras in your children's bedrooms without them knowing. Boyfriends or not, it would be a grotesque invasion of their privacy. But take away the secrecy and ask the same question: is it ever right to be able to check on your child via a camera?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/19/i-spied-on-my-daughter">Continue reading...</a>Parents and parentingGordon RamsayChefsLife and styleFamilyUK newsSat, 19 Oct 2013 19:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/19/i-spied-on-my-daughterPhotograph: REX/Times Newspapers Ltd/ REX/Times NewspapersGordon Ramsay hid a camera in his daughter's room. So did Barbara Ellen. Photograph: REX/Times Newspapers LtdPhotograph: REX/Times Newspapers Ltd/ REX/Times NewspapersGordon Ramsay hid a camera in his daughter's room. So did Barbara Ellen. Photograph: REX/Times Newspapers LtdBarbara Ellen2013-10-19T19:00:00ZGordon Ramsay: 'I'm still excited by perfection'https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/19/gordon-ramsay-still-excited-by-perfection
One of the nominees for OFM's chef of the decade says he's working smarter, not harder<p>"The world's got smaller, and my life is still a nightmare," says Gordon Ramsay, summing up how things have changed for him – or not – over the past 10 years. A decade ago, Ramsay had three Michelin stars at his flagship restaurant, one star at Claridge's and had just relaunched the Savoy Grill with chief protege Marcus Wareing. He'd also opened his first restaurant overseas, in Dubai, and was about to appear in Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen, TV shows that would make him a household name in Britain.</p><p>Although he would go on to open restaurants on five continents and become an international celebrity – as likely to be seen hanging out with the Beckhams in LA, where he has a home, as in any of his kitchens – the 46-year-old remains influential in the UK, and not just through the three Michelin stars Clare Smyth holds at Royal Hospital Road. Jason Atherton and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/17/angela-hartnett-neil-borthwick" title="">Angela Hartnett</a> wouldn't be expanding their respective empires quite so rapidly had they not witnessed their former boss's ability to juggle kitchen and boardroom.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/19/gordon-ramsay-still-excited-by-perfection">Continue reading...</a>Gordon RamsayChefsFood & drinkLife and styleSat, 19 Oct 2013 16:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/19/gordon-ramsay-still-excited-by-perfectionPhotograph: Gary Salter for Observer Food MonthlyGordon Ramsay in London. Photograph: Gary Salter for Observer Food MonthlyPhotograph: Gary Salter for Observer Food MonthlyGordon Ramsay in London. Photograph: Gary Salter for Observer Food MonthlyKillian Fox2013-10-19T16:00:00Z